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    Nobody Left Behind: One Child's Story About Testing
    Nobody Left Behind: One Child's Story About Testing
    Nobody Left Behind: One Child's Story About Testing
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    Nobody Left Behind: One Child's Story About Testing

    By Deanna Enos

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    "There is a great need for this book!"
    -Mary Allan, 2004 California Teacher of the Year

    Sometimes tests prove very little and somebody gets left behind even when they're thinking.

    Since standardized testing became a priority for schools, nine-year-old Jeffery Taylor's academic life has become pure torture. He suffers from a condition called test anxiety: when he takes a test, his stomach aches, his eyes hurt, he feels like his head is going to blow up, and, at times, he visibly trembles.

    Jeff's active imagination hasn't helped his success at school either-especially if he's drawing when he's supposed to be working on other subjects. But schoolwork is not his only problem. His classmate, Matt Huggins, is a real pest, and Jeff and his best friend, Terry, are growing apart. But Jeff is delighted when he meets a new friend who helps him to face his academic challenges.

    Testing is a tremendous issue in schools today. It can have a lasting effect on funding as schools balance the need to meet accountability standards with the desire to provide learning to students. But most importantly, it can result in test anxiety which has a lasting effect on children. In Nobody Left Behind, author Deanna Enos uses storytelling as an example of how to begin a dialogue between children, teachers, and parents concerning this important subject.

    Inside:
    Discussion Questions
    Activities for Art and Writing
    Test Taker Tips
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateApr 6, 2006
    ISBN9780595826643
    Nobody Left Behind: One Child's Story About Testing
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    Deanna Enos

    Deanna Enos Author of Nobody Left Behind One Child's Story About Testing has been selling the book at county fairs this summer. She has reached many parents and teachers, who were excited to find it. The book is being offered in an online class through the University of San Diego called Valuing the Individual in a Test Focused Environment -EDU 548P. It is being taught with Alfie Kohn's Unconditional Teaching which is the theory and Nobody Left Behind One Child's Story About Testing is the practical. California State University is recommending Nobody Left Behind One Child's Story About Testing to their student teachers as a must read book. As the author, retired teacher and promoter of Nobody Left Behind One Child's Story About Testing, I think nothing more important than using this book to help the present schools in crisis. I have been thanked repeatedly for writing it, and that is most satisfying. iUniverse did an excellent job of getting it together in a very professional manner that makes it easy to sell.

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      Nobody Left Behind - Deanna Enos

      Copyright © 2006 by Deanna Enos

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN-13: 978-0-595-38293-4 (pbk)

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      Printed in the United States of America

      Contents

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      PREFACE

      ELEMENTS OF THE BOOK

      CHAPTER 1

      CHAPTER 2

      CHAPTER 3

      CHAPTER 4

      CHAPTER 5

      CHAPTER 6

      CHAPTER 7

      CHAPTER 8

      CHAPTER 9

      CHAPTER 10

      CHAPTER 11

      CHAPTER 12

      CHAPTER 13

      CHAPTER 14

      CHAPTER 15

      CHAPTER 16

      CHAPTER 17

      CHAPTER 18

      DISCUSSION QUESTIONS AND

      ACTIVITIES

      TEST TAKER TIPS

      To my grandchildren, so that they can always know their grandma wrote a book.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      I wish to thank all the children who helped me to understand the struggles they were having with test anxiety. They have given me the desire to make their voices heard.

      My gratitude to my writing friends in Fortuna, who kept me inspired by their own good writing and perseverance.

      My special appreciation to Bunny Bassett, Jean Murray, and Claudia Nelson, who knew of this project and helped me not to let go of it.

      PREFACE

      Storytelling is one way to begin dialogue among children, teachers, and parents about a subject that is very important to all of them. That is how Nobody Left Behind came to be. Test anxiety is a tremendous problem for some children. Testing has a lasting effect on schools, how they get their funding, and how they provide learning since accountability has become a top priority. It also has a lasting effect on children, and they need to understand more about it.

      Ignored fears grow. Test results are final answers. Children benefit from fewer final answers about them and from more people believing in their potential.

      ELEMENTS OF THE BOOK

      The beginning of each chapter includes a quote by a famous person. Each quote specifically applies to the chapter that follows it.

      There are eighteen chapters, each one developing the nine-year-old’s point of view as he struggles with his situation.

      There are questions at the end pertaining to each chapter and activities for art and writing to expand the child’s creative ability and help him or her understand the predicament. Special test-taking tips are also included.

      When we are young

      we want a great deal more of life

      than we do of school.

      Robert Frost

      CHAPTER 1

      Time to get up, Jeff.

      Nine-year-old Jeffery Taylor pulled the pillow over his head in an attempt to block out the dreaded sound that meant he had to get up. Monday morning was school, and he hated school.

      The same old thing. He wanted to do something different today. School was boring. He wished his dad had taken him on the fishing boat, but his mother wouldn’t allow it.

      I have my reasons, she’d said when he asked once why he couldn’t go. You’d rather be out playing, for sure, but life isn’t all fun and games, you know. There’s work involved—and school.

      As he sat up, Jeff reached for his clock. He’d set his alarm the previous night, but this morning it had failed to ring, so now he had to listen to his mother’s sharp voice. Jeff, get out of that bed!

      More important to him than getting up was the fact that the clock hadn’t rung. He picked it up and examined it. It was ticking. The button was pulled out.

      I wonder...I wonder why, he thought. He gazed at the clock, taking time to watch the second hand go around several times.

      He pulled back the lever of the clock to see if the alarm would go off. Then he made the clock swoop as if it were a plane in flight and hummed to himself. His feet still had not hit the floor. He was avoiding the inevitable. What he really wanted was to have it be Saturday. No such luck.

      Jeff’s mother’s third call got results. Jeff gently set the clock on the nightstand and, throwing back the covers, climbed out of bed. It didn’t matter to him what he wore, so he grabbed the faded blue jeans and crumpled yellow T-shirt that were lying limply on a chair under the window.

      Jeff was an only child, so the loft bedroom in the remodeled house was his own. His mother sometimes went up there, mostly just to change the sheets on his single bed, which was shoved against the wall under the sloped ceiling. He had more than his share of toys stuffed in his closet, toys that he no longer played with much.

      His bookshelves were lined with miniature soldiers that had once belonged to his dad. Jeff spent hours arranging and rearranging the little figures. They were closer to him than his dad had ever been.

      Jeff felt safe in his room. Nothing changed there unless he changed it. His soldiers always stayed exactly where he left them.

      Are you up yet? It was his mother again. He heard but didn’t answer.

      What’s so important about dumb old school? Boring stuff. The same thing over and over: reading, math, spelling; reading, math, spelling. Who cares about all that junk? They give us all these papers to color. They never even let us draw. Hardly ever. He reached for his clock.

      I wish this clock could change the day. I wish this clock could change the day, he chanted, marching

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